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OTTAWA CITIZEN — The news arrived, with ironic timing, on Valentine’s Day, to hearts long broken.

David McColl, 58, waited for his wife Monica, 56, to arrive home before opening the letter from the office of the Quebec coroner.

He had been their only son. They would do this together.

Almost three years after Anthony (Tony) McColl, 19, was killed in a head-on crash on Hwy. 148, the Aylmer couple officially learned what they had long suspected. The other driver, Brandon Crawford, 20, who also perished, was impaired at the wheel.

The report, dated Jan. 17, said toxicology analysis on Crawford found traces of cannabis and a blood- alcohol level of 163 milligrams, just over twice the legal limit.

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Police in Quebec have identified the victims of a fire near Quyon Saturday night.

In a media release, MRC des Collines says Corina Usher Hayward, 56 and Richard Henry Neil, 51, died in the basement apartment at the farmhouse at 3122 Wilson Rd. The woman was a tenant of the basement apartment in the home, which the upstairs residents had purchased in 2012.